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Edition 266
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Friday 8th April 2016
BRIT BOY IN POOL DEATH
ALEX TRELINSKI
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four-year-old British boy died on Wednesday evening after drowning in a Torrevieja swimming pool at the start of a family holiday in the area. The youngster is said to have died after falling into the pool which was at a house on Calle Bajamar on the Rocío del Mar, urbanisation SAMU paramedics were called to the scene just after
6.00 pm and tried unsuccessfully to revive the youngster. The Foreign Office confirmed it is providing consular assistance to the boy's family. A spokeswoman said: “Following the death of a British national in Spain, we are providing support to their family. Our thoughts are with them at this difficult time." No names were released at the time The Courier went to press.
TURN BACK THE CLOCK A
cting Prime Minister and leader of the Partido Popular, Mariano Rajoy, has fired what appears to be the first serious shots for a possible June general election by pledging an end to the tradi-
tional Spanish siesta and a clock change to Greenwich Mean Time, which would mean UK and Spanish clocks would be in sync for the first time since the early forties. It’s also seen as move against people within the PP who would like Rajoy gone before
a second vote. Spain’s dictator General Franco moved the clocks forward to Central European Time during 1942 so that the country’s time would be the same as for Nazi Germany, with a recent pact between the socialist PSOE and the centrist-Ciudadanos pledging a clock change as well. It would put an end to the twohour lunch break when many Spaniards sneak in an afternoon nap. Rajoy said that he would turn back the clocks in order to "adapt to the needs of the country", with reconciling work and family life being the ultimate goal. The switch would put the whole of Spain
in the same time zone as the Canary Islands, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, and appears to be a strong possibility with opposition parties also wanting the change. The acting Prime Minister also promised an end to the working day at 6.00pm, though the earlier-finishing working hours will not include the public sector – where office staff normally finish at 3.00pm or thereabouts, and emergency and medical services have to work around the clock – nor companies which, by definition, work at night, such as bars and nightclubs, or those which already have a shift system.
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